Miami is the only major city in the United States to be founded by a woman, Julia Tuttle. Born as Julia DeForest Sturtevant on January 22, 1849. After her husband and father had died, she inherited an orange grove in Florida and sold her remaining estate in Ohio to purchase the James Egan grant of 640 acres, where the city of Miami is now located.

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